Chrome continues to eat away at IE, Firefox in October

Google Chrome continued to slowly dissolve Microsoft Internet Explorer’s and Mozilla Firefox’s market shares in October, according to new numbers from Net Applications.

Chrome’s worldwide Web-browser share jumped to 8.47 percent last month, up from 7.98 percent in September. Meanwhile, IE fell from 59.65 percent to 59.26 percent in October and Firefox shrank from 22.96 percent to 22.82 percent, according to the analysis firm. Apple Safari grew from 5.27 percent to 5.33 percent.

For a while, things were looking up for IE, which rebounded from springtime dip below 60 percent when it grew this summer. But no more — Microsoft’s browser continues to steadily drop as it has for more than three years.

When you look at specific versions, Internet Explorer 8 saw its growth spurt continue — rising from 31.75 percent in September to 32.04 percent in October (including IE8 compatibility mode). IE7 fell from 10.39 percent to 9.92 percent and IE6 fell from 15.55 to 15.01 percent.

Internet Explorer 9, a beta of which Microsoft released to the public Sept. 15, registered at 0.28 percent of the worldwide share, according to Net Applications. Last week, Microsoft said the IE9 beta has been downloaded more than 10 million times.

Here’s the chart:

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